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Unique IDCWGC/1/1/9/C/26
Alt Ref NoWG 219/19 PT.1
TitleMemorials To The Missing - Mesopotamia
DescriptionMain topics: policy on private memorials in Mesopotamia; enquiries from public; Basra memorial design by E. Warren; criticism of design by India Office re religious considerations; compilation of lists of names; prospective withdrawal of British forces from Iraq; difficulties of obtaining names of Indian casualties; decision not to commemorate Indian other ranks by name; inscription for Basra memorial (R. Kipling); construction problems at Basra; tenders and contracts for components; inscription at Mosul prisoner of War cemetery; choice of site for commemoration of missing dead from Asia Minor; commemoration of Nigerian names.
Date4/5/1917 - 21/5/1928
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Content NoteIncluding: Copies of correspondence re enquiries about graves and proposed private memorials, 4 May 1917 - 19 Jan. 1918. List of units which served in Mesopotamia. Report of conference at India Office re design; 6 June 1923. Minutes of meeting of Iraq War Graves Committee, 11 Jan. 1924. Envelopes containing pr. designs (E.P. Warren's) for memorial and inscription panel. Schedule of number of names for Basra memorial, categorised as white/native - officer/other rank. Press cuttings from British and Indian newspapers re Basra memorial, 9 July 1928 - 29 Aug. 1928.
Extent1 file
CollectionArchive
CategoryArchive
ArchNoteORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE WITH R. KIPLING RE INSCRIPTIONS GONE TO MUNIMENTS; SDC 47; AUG. 1958.

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DS/UK/4Kipling; (Joseph) Rudyard (1865-1936); writer and poet1865-1936
DS/UK/28Warren; Edward Prioleau (1856-1937); architect and archaeologist1856-1937
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